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Is it possible that a UW Huskies defense down nine starters could somehow be better in 2019?

Levi Onwuzurike could not have said it any clearer.

And, no, he didn’t need to wait for the end of the question.

It was 3:45 p.m. on August 12 — an overcast Monday in Seattle — and Washington’s 6-foot-3, 293-pound junior defensive lineman stood in the southeast corner of Husky Stadium, providing a sound bite (and a spoiler?).

“You lose, obviously, guys who had been here,” a reporter prefaced. “But do you feel like, with the amount of depth that you have and available bodies, that this group can be better than the one—”

“We will be,” Onwuzurike responded, as if the answer should have been obvious.